Hameed

Currently Learning Blender

After close to 30 years as a 3DsMax user, i have recently (as of 2024) taken to learning Blender, starting with enviro art below,

i intend to slowly re-learn everything i know how to do in max already, as well as try things i was unable to make before.

The following renders are a part of that journey, and should all be considered practice, albeit practice informed with decades of experience.

Blender Environment Art

Space Art

Blender roadmap

Im currently re-learning 3D in Blender after 30 years as a 3dSMax user, this is the plan:

Phase 1: Deep Space & Procedural Environments (Completed) ✔️

• Procedural volume shaders (black holes, accretion disks, gravitational lensing)✔️

  

• Planet texturing & atmospheric scattering✔️

  

• Volumetric nebulae & particle-driven galaxies✔️

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• Environment staging and lighting setups✔️

  

Phase 2: Destruction & Dynamics (In Progress)

• Cell Fracture and rigid body setups (trading RayFire/MassFX for Blender’s native physics)

  
  

• Geometry Nodes destruction, dynamic cracking, and debris scattering

  
  

• Gas and pyroclastic smoke solvers for secondary impact effects

• Phase 2b: Organic Sculpting & Retopology

  

  
  

  • Dynamic topology (Dyntopo) vs. Multiresolution sculpting

    
    

  • Retopology workflows using Face Snapping and Shrinkwrap modifiers

  
  

Phase 3: Core Hard-Surface & Sub-D Modeling

• Sub-object selection, Loop Cuts, Knife tool, and Bevels

  
  

• Non-destructive modifier stacks: Solidify, Bevel by Weight/Angle, and Weighted Normals

  
  

• Boolean workflows and clean quad remeshing

Phase 4: Rigging & Mechanical Constraints

• Transitioning from Max Bones/Biped to Blender Armatures

  
  

• Setting up Drivers and Constraints to replace Wire Parameters

  
  

Phase 5: Procedural World-Building (Geometry Nodes)

• Building custom scattering and parametric asset generators from scratch

Space Art

2D Digital - Photoshop paintings, no stocks or refs used.

Scifi Art

Fan Art

Stocks